The Open court . ARCH OF TFiUS. and represented as having struck the rock, in response to whichthe water comes gushing forth improvising its own music anddancing fantastically in its white cloud of spray. 468 THE OPEN COURT. That deserted part of the city, sacred to the elderly ruins, nodoubt looks cheerless enough at all times, but viewing it as we didthrough the cold mist and rain, it appeared dreary indeed. Thatportion of the city is called Old Rome, having narrow streets, someof them without sidewalks, while others have a narrow walk on oneside only. New Rome presents a more attractive app
The Open court . ARCH OF TFiUS. and represented as having struck the rock, in response to whichthe water comes gushing forth improvising its own music anddancing fantastically in its white cloud of spray. 468 THE OPEN COURT. That deserted part of the city, sacred to the elderly ruins, nodoubt looks cheerless enough at all times, but viewing it as we didthrough the cold mist and rain, it appeared dreary indeed. Thatportion of the city is called Old Rome, having narrow streets, someof them without sidewalks, while others have a narrow walk on oneside only. New Rome presents a more attractive appearance withwider streets and fit pavements; the buildings average well, and theshops display a great variety of attractive merchandise. Fine jew-elry, precious stones, superior photography, painting and statuary,attract the eye and pleasantly tax the brain from morning until. TEMPLE OF VESTA. night. For ages numerous sculptors here have devoted their livesto the perfection of mythological subjects; each ambitious to createa perfect Venus—Venus as beautiful as when she came drippingfrom the sea; consequently we find Venuses of every age and pro-portion ; some colored by time, others fresh from the chisel pinkand white, and as fair as the morning, the hair waving over theirgraceful bodies, questioning eyes, fleshlike arms, dimpled hands,and looking as though Galatea-like, they were about to move,—tospeak. Others have passed by their young life and days of beautyand perfect form, and are no longer attractive, save to savants, or A LETTER FROM ROME. 469 students of antique sculpture. Time, who never rests, has beenat work changing the deHcate tints of their bodies, until they havebecome sootish-gray, ravished and mutilated; one having lost ahand, or arm, or leg, or nose, another with thigh broken; lifelessall, remnants of petrified Venuses. * * *Many priva
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